OpenCL is for video cards in general. Both technologies have nothing to do with the CPU.

OpenCL, or Open Computing Language, can use all kinds of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices, ranging from CPUs to GPUs to any other hardware capable of doing intricate calculations, like co-processors.

At this moment it's mostly used to work with GPUs, but that doesn't mean that it is for GPUs only. Jord

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@Floyds: I don't think anyone has shown one CPU to be more helpful than another to the GPUs computing if that was your question. Some have found if it good to leave one core or thread idle to "feed" the GPU on heavy duty crunchers. So more cores the better I reckon.SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!

From my bit of browsing it seems only the quad core or fewer AMDs are within the 95W limit of your motherboard. You should also check which processors the BIOS supports.

To be honest you'll see better SETI number crunching gains from adding in a reasonable graphics card than aiming for more CPU cores. My quad core intel CPU had a RAC of 1,000 and then when I put in a GTX 260 graphics card it climbed to over 8,000. Maybe also consider what else you use the computer for.Brian.